Word: paged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wives of the title (and, as Falstaff thinks, titular wives only) Nancy Marchand and Nancy Wickwire are properly merry. The latter (Mistress Ford) especially does some fresh things with her lines. For instance, when she is leading Falstaff on and tells him, "I fear you love Mistress Page," she raises the last name in pitch and volume as though in summons, whereupon Mistress Page pops into view by mistake. And Sada Thompson adds much to the humor of Mistress Quickly through a command of subtle inflections and timing...
...fact, never before, it seems, has the Festival stage been employed by the directors with such virtuosity and flexibility. Much humor derives from the outlandish costumes designed by Motley. Mistress Ford wears an outfit of incompatible orange and mauve; and when it is side by side with Mistress Page's fuchsia one, the combination is an awful eyesore. Slender wears a pink doublet, amber hat, and ridiculous flowered chintz trousers...
...Generation of Murderers." Occasionally, the Soviet anti-American campaign slips to patent idiocy. A 65-page pamphlet entitled "Their Morality" carries the publishers contention that it portrays "bourgeois morality in its true likeness," then opens with prize exhibit No. i: Denver's Jack Graham, who sought his mother's insurance in 1955 by filling her luggage with dynamite, killed her and 43 other plane passengers. Graham was executed for the crime-a fact omitted in the account. To show that bourgeois morality prepares for war, the pamphlet falsely quotes U.S. Draft Boss Lewis Hershey: "We need a generation...
Alarmed by the suffocation of 55 children this year by plastic bags, the plastics industry last week launched a million dollar common-sense campaign to preserve safety, along with its 3 billion-bag-a-year business (estimated $30 million in sales). In full-page advertisements in 117 major newspapers across the nation, the industry warned: "Never keep a plastic bag after it has served its intended usefulness. Destroy it: tear it up and throw it away...
When the cops moved in, Poet Morris exploded. "Until now, poetry hasn't been considered a crime. This is absolutely ridiculous," he announced, and made the front page of the New York Herald Tribune. His remarks also attracted the attention of Deputy Police Commissioner Walter Arm, who was moved to compassion. Taking pen in hand, Commissioner Arm handed down a ruling...